Thomas G. West, Ph.D.
Winner of
THE BAGEHOT COUNCIL / HENRY PAOLUCCI
PUBLISHER'S BOOK AWARD
for
Vindicating the Founders
(Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, Inc)
Thomas G. West is a professor of politics at the University of Dallas, as well as director and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. He received his B.A. from Cornell university and his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School. He served in Vietnam as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army.Bradley Resident Scholar from 1988 to 1989 at the Heritage Foundation, and Salvatori Visiting Scholar at Claremont McKenna College from 1990 to 1992, Professor West is currently a director of the Texas Council for the Humanities and member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's Texas Advisory Committee.He has contributed chapters on American Politics to several books, including "Misunderstanding the American Founding", in Interpreting Tocqueville's Democracy in America; "The Decline of Free Speech in Twentieth-Century America," in Liberty Under Law; and "Religious Liberty: The View From the Founding," in On Faith and Free Government -- all published by Rowman and Littlefield. He is also the author of Plato's Apology of Socrates: An Interpretation, with a New Translation and, with Grace West, co-translator of Four Texts on Socrates : Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds, both published by Cornell University Press.The Bagehot Council is proud to honor Professor Thomas G. West as the first recipient of the HENRY PAOLUCCI PUBLISHERS' BOOK AWARDS.
